- Executive Meddling: Hollywood mogul David O. Selznick, who initiated the production as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones, wanted a more traditional American-style love story and kept clashing Vittorio De Sica and Montgomery Clift as a result. He Re-Cut and re-titled the film for its American release, shortening the runtime from 89 minutes to 72.
- Fake Nationality: Montgomery Clift, an American with Scots ancestry from Nebraska, plays an Italian academic with a questionable accent.
- Troubled Production:
- Selznick's clashes with De Sica saw him hire and fire several writers (including Truman Capote and Alberto Moravia) and sending the director 50-page letters every day. De Sica wound up ignoring him, not necessarily because he wanted to, but because he didn't understand English.
- Grieving from her ex-husband Robert Walker's recent death, Jennifer Jones more-or-less mentally dropped out of the proceedings, exasperating the already-tense shoot.
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